Saturday 5 March

From the Rucks 

 Garden Grape Hyacinth - Muscari armeniacum

Female Hazel Flower - Corylus avellana

Male Catkins Hazel - Corylus avellana

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Saturday 14 March

Cool morning

 Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa flower buds

 Common Polypody - Polypodium vulgare

 Common Polypody - Polypodium vulgare Spores

Close up of the tiny female Hazel flower - Corylus avellana

 Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

Jelly Ear - Auricularia auricula-judae

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Wednesday 11 February

Mild again, we did an hour this morning as it was Meg's day at the Vets for her acupuncture, she was tired the rest of the day.

Female flowers on the Hazel - Corylus avellana so tiny and hardly noticable

There was plenty on but as I am always saying we rarely see the ripe nut.

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Tuesday 13 January

Damp, Cool Morning

 Can't resist the sunrise over the lodge

Tern Rafts waiting for their residents to return - the gulls and other birds make good use of it during the rest of the year

 

Goosanders - males out numbering the females, they seem to avoid all human activity, especially me and the camera.

River Yarrow

 

Just peeping through, Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

 Hazel - Corylus avellana, just the male catkins no sign of the female flowers yet.

 Pendulous Sedge - Carex pendula

Spotted Dead Nettle - Lamium maculatum

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Friday 27 June

Sunny day 

 Black Medick - Medicago lupulina

 Dog Vomit Slime Mold

 Hazel - Corylus avellana

 Young Tern on raft

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus

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Wednesday 26 March

We kept to the Rucks this morning Meg has been having acupuncture for her back and this morning is her third session, so we are trying to keep her clean, we managed it with just muddy paws.

 Blackthorn - Prunus spinosa looks like cherry plum but don't be fooled this has ferocious thorns, plus the darker twigs and the flowers are smaller. 

Broom - Cytisus scoparius

Broom - Cytisus scoparius

Geranium another garden throw out.

Hazel - Corylus avellana next step is the nuts - but not for us as I have said before we rarely see ripe hazel nuts as the squirrels take them green :)

 Footpath on the rucks, not as popular as some due to the mud.

 Another footpath on the rucks a bit drier so well used

Willow - Salix 

Yellow Iris - Iris pseudacorus these are well up the rucks just shows how wet these rucks are.

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Wednesday 5 March

Just a few photos again

 Dandelion - Taraxacum

 Hazel - Corylus avellana - female flower above male catkin below

Spotted Laurel - Aucuba japonica finding a bit of this in various parts of the valley - I think someone is putting cuttings in

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Sunday 23 February

More photos from Sunday

Quite a few trees down with the gales we have been having

 Goat Willow down on the edge of Burgh Wood

Just as the buds were opening now it will be cut up and removed.

 Hazel - Corylus avellana with male catkin and female flower

White Poplar - Populus alba a few down on the edge of Plock Wood

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Thursday 6 February

Another morning we stayed dry - a bonus for a grand walk

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 Cowslip Leaves - Primula veris

Female Flower - Hazel - Corylus avellana

Male Flower - Hazel - Corylus avellana

Rabbit on the Rucks

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Sunday 19 January

Showers this morning

 Canada Geese waiting for us

 Silt that has washed into the lodge caused by the heavy rainfall

 This channel comes through Burgh Wood

 Footpath along side the Big Lodge

 ID as Velvet Shank never seen it so jelly like

 Coot

 The wet weather is bringing out the fungi

 Hairy Curtain Crust - Stereum hirsutum

 Strange shape for a tree almost like it has been struck by lightening years ago

Hazel - Corylus avellana

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